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- Nov 25
- 28 min
'To Build A Fire' by Jack London
Introduction by Livi Michael ‘To Build a Fire’ Is a story about a man who sets out in the freezing Yukon winter, accompanied only by a...
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- Nov 18
- 10 min
'The Tell-tale Heart' by Edgar Allan Poe
Introduction by Jacqueline Doyle Edgar Allan Poe insisted that every great short story focuses on a “single effect,” and that every word...
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- Nov 11
- 27 min
'The Inconsiderate Waiter' by J.M. Barrie
Introduction by Cath Barton The Scottish novelist and playwright James Matthew Barrie was appointed a baronet by King George V in 1913....
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- Nov 4
- 8 min
'A Garden by the Sea' by Forrest Reid
Introduction by Chris Wright In his 1981 essay, Escaping from Belfast, V.S. Pritchett wrote at length about a forgotten Ulster writer by...
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- Oct 20
- 10 min
'The Lumber Room' by Saki
Introduction by Fiona McKay Many years ago, when I was in school, we had an anthology of short stories, Exploring English 1. It was my...
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- Oct 13
- 74 min
'White Nights' by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Introduction by Luca Serra I believe certain pieces of fiction find you when you most need it. This was the case for me with White...
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- Oct 6
- 19 min
'Laura Silver Bell' by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Introduction by Rebekah King A young woman, demurely dressed, is looking wistfully away from the viewer at a sinister figure who holds...
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- Sep 29
- 3 min
'The Hill' from Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters
Introduction by Stu Hennigan This is a real curio; a collection of free verse poems in which over two hundred people who have lived and...
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- Sep 1
- 1 min
Pre-order THE POET & THE ECHO - Subscribers' Offer
Pre-orders are now open for The Poet & the Echo before its launch on 12th September. Touching and powerful stories written in response to...
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- Jul 15
- 14 min
‘The Strength of God’ by Sherwood Anderson
Introduction by Russ Litten I first read Winesburg, Ohio in my late teens. I had fallen in love with American Literature - Raymond Carver...
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- Jul 8
- 11 min
'Lou, The Prophet' by Willa Cather
Introduction by Elsa Court Willa Cather began publishing stories in her student years and continued until the end of her life. While many...
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- Jul 2
- 1 min
Beach Reading - Summer Discount!
Summer holidays are approaching and we're buying books we'll pack for the beach... The big literary journals will open their submission...
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- Jul 1
- 12 min
'The Necklace' by Guy De Maupassant
Introduction by Naomi Wood What an exquisite fantasist is the woman at the heart of Maupassant’s gloriously unfair short story ‘The...
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- Jun 23
- 27 min
'A Cross Line' by George Egerton
Introduction by Hannah Clark A Cross Line, the opening story in George Egerton’s (1859 – 1945) collection, Keynote (1898), is an...
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- Jun 17
- 15 min
'Three Drops of Blood' by Sadeq Hedayat
Introduction by RZ Baschir I came across the Alma Classics edition of Three Drops of Blood in one of those secondhand book boxes outside...
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- Jun 10
- 13 min
'Alice’s Adventures through the Looking Glass' by Lewis Carroll
Introduction by Camille U. Adams As a child, since I was three years old, I’ve read almost any storybook of which I can get a hold....
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- Jun 1
- 21 min
'Miss Mary Pask' by Edith Wharton
Introduction by Brittany Terwilliger I’ve always cited “The Age of Innocence” as one of my favorite books, and it surprised me to...
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- May 27
- 7 min
'Old Shloyme' by Isaac Babel
Introduction by Sara Lippmann I knew I wanted to pick a story by Isaac Babel. Born in Odessa, celebrated as one of the most vital Soviet...
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- May 19
- 10 min
'The Fly' by Katherine Mansfield
Introduction by Mike Fox Written in three weeks in a Paris hotel when Mansfield was desperately ill, The Fly is a story about death, the...
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